A life that blooms like fireworks, thank you for all this

Forrest 2022-04-19 09:02:38

The protagonist still has only a few lines. Violence and warmth coexist. The paintings are integrated with reality. The romance of Kitano Takeshi is blooming in the sky.

The death of his daughter, his wife's incurable disease, the death of a colleague, the disability of a close friend, the debt of usury... It seems that everything in life is full of despair and helplessness, just like the painting full of snow words, life has fallen into a cold winter, only The love that is about to come to an end is like the last light that gives Xi the last trace of warmth, but the last scarlet word of self-determination also indicates that all this will eventually usher in a sad ending.

Xi Ta's pain is not heart-wrenching: he takes care of the family members of colleagues who died in the line of duty, cares about his close friends who are disabled due to work, and even pays off the debts he owes... His love is not vigorous either: he goes home and brings his wife some food. snacks, play tangram and poker with my wife, take my wife to the place she wants to go…

During the period, Nishi's robbery, fighting and killing were neat and full of laughter and ridicule, which formed a rich texture contrast with the soothing emotional line. With Jo Hisaishi's music, Kitano Takeshi's violent aesthetics brought a double impact to the audience's audiovisual.

In the end, in the seaside full of laughter and laughter of the girls, the West and his wife snuggled together with two gunshots to end this flamboyant and fleeting life like fireworks... sad but happy.

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Extended Reading
  • Bettie 2022-03-24 09:03:05

    Rewatch. You say, people, what is the point of living a life of mediocrity like this?

  • Amelie 2021-12-30 17:17:15

    [A+] It seems to understand why Kurosawa once said to Kitano that the future of Japanese cinema depends on you, because Kitano really understands what a movie is. In watching the movie, I admired the gentle and lonely atmosphere created by Takeshi Kitano more than once in the movie. The sudden violence and the silence throughout the whole process have invisibly expanded this sense of alienation from the end of the road. "Fireworks in the Day" is so deeply influenced by this film, whether it is the unprepared shootout and death, or the deep-rooted loneliness and self-blame, they are all surprisingly consistent. But obviously, compared with the "entanglement" in "Fireworks", Takeshi Kitano in "Fireworks" is obviously more "indifferent". Kitano's violent aesthetics is very direct and concise in this film, but his unique black humor has made me worry more than once in the film. Hisaishi Joe's soundtrack is simply a match made in heaven, and it can express this brutal "gentleness at the end" when paired with the movie. Of course, what impressed me the most in the movie was Kitano's painting skills. Maybe he made this film to hold a "video exhibition".

Fireworks quotes

  • Horibe: Work is all I've ever known.

  • Yoshitaka Nishi: Next time, I'll kill you.